"Who Rules Russia Rules the World"

AUTHOR(S)

Horlings, Albert

PUB. DATE

July 1941

SOURCE

New Republic;7/7/41, Vol. 105 Issue 1, p11

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the opinion of German geopoliticians about the military policies adopted by the Soviet Union and Germany. Reports the arrest of the author and editor Karl Haushofer; Reference to geopolitician Ewald Banse's publication "Raum und Volk im Weltkrieg," in which he suggested the penetration of the Maginot Line, France; Proposal to neutralize Japan in the war; View Haushofer's Geopolitical Institute at Munich as a propaganda bureau as well as the core of the best military intelligence service in the world.

The article reports on the creation of psychological warfare by Ewald Banse, a free-lance geographer turned military scientist. Banse driven by his frustration and disappointment caused by Germany's defeat in the First World War wrote two books on psychological warfare to provide the Nazis with...

Addresses a sampling of the many doctrinal issues the United States military intelligence community faces. Changes upon approval of FM 101-5 Staff Organizations and Operations; Revision of FM 34-130; Execution of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

This article presents information on military planning in the U.S. Modern weapons need not of themselves inexorably beget more sophisticated, expensive and destructive devices. It is true that pressures exist which, if unrestrained, would needlessly proliferate and duplicate weapon designs....

Explores the inadequacies in the conduct of strategic intelligence policy in the United States. Failure to provide policymakers with objective intelligence; Indiscriminate collection of intelligence; Inadequate protection of officers and agents abroad; Problems with counterintelligence.

Focuses on the relation between the military and the media in the U.S. Concern over the disclosure of classified information to the public by investigative reporters; Erosion of the sanctity of classified information; Responsibility of the National Security Agency.

The article reports that a plan to expand operations throughout the world by 2015 has been drafted by Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, also known as MIT. The plan aims to make MIT the leading agency in Turkey's intelligence community, long dominated by the military. MIT director...

The article underscores the exercise of land warfare as a critical component of any military strategy. It points out the existence of a unique demand for the strategic effect that can only be delivered through control gained by the use of landpower. It concludes that while landpower cannot claim...

This article explains that the U.S. Department of Defense's 2007 annual report on Chinese military power represents a defeat for pro-China officials in the White House who have sought to play down the alarming buildup of Chinese military forces. It says that pro-China advocates in the...